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Joe King
Austin, Texas, USA · b. Feb 8, 1883
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68
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Joe King was an American screen and stage actor, his film career spanning the years 1912 to 1946. In addition, he wrote the story for a 1915 movie and directed two 1916 films.
KNOWN FOR
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939
Sergeant York
1941
They Died with Their Boots On
1941
Destry Rides Again
1939
The Walking Dead
1936
His Butler's Sister
1943
Satan Met a Lady
1936
In Old Chicago
1938
Gentleman Jim
1942
When the Daltons Rode
1940
Smashing the Money Ring
1939
The Glass Key
1942
FILMOGRAPHY
All
Movies
TV
Acting
138
Directing
1
1956
Thunder Beach
as Narrator
1946
Magnificent Doll
as Jailer (uncredited)
1943
Keep 'Em Slugging
as Scott
1943
She Has What It Takes
as Lee Shuleman
1943
Bombardier
as General Barnes
1943
His Butler's Sister
as Train Conductor
1942
The Big Shot
as Prosecutor Toohey
1942
Butch Minds the Baby
as Police Lieutenant
1942
The Glass Key
as Fisher (uncredited)
1942
Gentleman Jim
as Col. McLane (uncredited)
1942
Silver Queen
as Colonel (uncredited)
1941
Strange Alibi
as Warden Morrell
1941
Sergeant York
as Draft Board Chairman (uncredited)
1941
Badlands of Dakota
as Ship's Captain
1941
They Died with Their Boots On
as Chairman of Hearing (uncredited)
1941
Bullets for O'Hara
as Maxwell
1941
Blondie Goes Latin
as Captain of the Cruz del Sur (uncredited)
1940
Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum
as Inspector O'Matthews
1940
You're Not So Tough
as Collins
1940
Black Friday
as Chief of Police
1940
Trail of the Vigilantes
as Ellery
1940
When the Daltons Rode
as Oklahoma Sheriff
1940
Danger On Wheels
as Race Commissioner
1940
It's a Date
as First Mate Kelly
1940
Always a Bride
as Mr. Franklyn
1940
The Flag of Humanity
as President Rutherford B. Hayes (uncredited)
1939
Code of the Secret Service
as Tom 'Jim' Saxby
1939
Smashing the Money Ring
as Saxby
1939
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
as Policeman (uncredited)
1939
Let Us Live
as Inspector Cavanaugh (uncredited)
1939
East Side of Heaven
as Detective (uncredited)
1939
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
as Summers (uncredited)
1939
Destry Rides Again
as Sheriff Keogh
1939
Off the Record
as Brown
1939
You Can't Get Away with Murder
as Prison Guard
1939
My Son Is a Criminal
as Jerry Kingsley
1938
Alexander's Ragtime Band
as Charles Dillingham
1938
City Streets
as Mike Shanahan
1938
Arsène Lupin Returns
as Inspector Hennessey (uncredited)
1938
Heart of the North
as Mac Drummond
1938
Gateway
as Inspector
1938
In Old Chicago
as Ship's Captain
1938
Strange Faces
as Police Lt. Hennigan
1937
God's Country and the Woman
as Red Munro
1937
Mountain Justice
as Judge at Ruth's Trial
1937
Armored Car
as Tom Sheridan
1937
That Man's Here Again
as Mr. Ned Murdock
1937
Fly Away Baby
as Guy Allister
1937
Once a Doctor
as Frank Brace
1937
White Bondage
as Trent Talcott
1937
Land Beyond the Law
as Lew Wallace (uncredited)
1937
San Quentin
as Warden Taylor
1937
Big Town Girl
as Detective
1937
Hot Water
as Mayor Roberts
1936
The Walking Dead
as Judge Roger Shaw
1936
Bullets or Ballots
as Dan 'Mac' McLaren
1936
The Case of the Velvet Claws
as George C. Belter
1936
Public Enemy's Wife
as Wilcox
1936
Road Gang
as J. W. Moett
1936
Polo Joe
as Colonel Hilton
1936
Jailbreak
as Mike Eagan
1936
Freshman Love
as Terry Biddle (uncredited)
1936
The Singing Kid
as Dr. May
1936
Sons o' Guns
as General Harper
1936
Satan Met a Lady
as Detective (uncredited)
1936
China Clipper
as Mr. Pierson
1936
Snowed Under
as John - in a Doorman's Uniform (uncredited)
1935
We're in the Money
as Mr. Blank(scenes deleted)
1935
Special Agent
as Agent Wilson
1935
Alibi Ike
as Johnson
1935
Frisco Kid
as James "Jim" Daley (as Joseph King)
1935
Moonlight on the Prairie
as Sheriff Jim
1935
Broadway Hostess
as Big Joe Jarvis
1935
Man of Iron
as Harrison Balding
1935
Front Page Woman
as Hartnett
1935
Shipmates Forever
as Commander Doughlin (uncredited)
1935
Stranded
as Dan Archer (uncredited)
1934
Woman in the Dark
as Detective
1934
Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
as Police Dispatcher
1932
The Trial of Vivienne Ware
as Bailiff (uncredited)
1930
Roadhouse Nights
as John Hanson
1929
The Laughing Lady
as City Editor
1929
The Battle of Paris
as Jack
1926
Tin Gods
as First Foreman
1924
Unguarded Women
as Captain Robert Banning
1924
The Masked Dancer
as Fred Sinclair
1923
Big Brother
as Big Ben Murray
1923
Twenty-One
as Mr. McCullough
1923
The Daring Years
as Jim Moran, pugilist
1922
The Valley of Silent Men
1922
With Stanley in Africa
as David Livingstone
1922
Sisters
as Martin Lloyd
1921
Anne of Little Smoky
as Bob Hayne
1921
Moral Fibre
as John Corliss
1921
The Idol of the North
as Sergeant McNair
1921
The Girl with the Jazz Heart
as Miles Sprague
1921
The Scarab Ring
as Ward Locke
1920
The Broadway Bubble
as Geoffrey Landreth
1920
Man and Woman
as Joe
1920
The North Wind's Malice
as Henry Carter
1920
The Woman God Sent
as Jack West Jr.
1919
The Imp
as The Leopard
1919
The Right To Lie
as Crosby Dana
1919
False Evidence
as Lot Gordon
1919
Love's Prisoner
as Jim Garside
1919
The Way of the Strong
as Alexander Hendrie
1918
The Secret Code
as Jefferson Harrow
1918
The Price of Applause
as Marcarson
1918
Shifting Sands
as John Stanford
1918
Irish Eyes
as Sir Arthur Ormsby
1918
Every Woman's Husband
as Frank Emerson
1918
The Answer
as John Warfield
1918
The Hand at the Window
as Roderick Moran
1917
The Law North of 65
as Niklo
1917
Until They Get Me
as Selwyn
1917
Hell Hath No Fury
1917
Betty and the Buccaneers
as Dick Winthrop
1917
Big Timber
as Walter Monahan
1917
Wild Winship's Widow
as Morley Morgan
1917
The Rose Of Blood
as Prime Minister
1917
Madame du Barry
1917
The Sea Master
as Pedro
1917
Sands of Sacrifice
as Sophier
1916
The Selfish Woman
as Donald McKenzie
1915
The Ring of Destiny
as Big Bill
1914
The White Mouse
as Lawler
1914
Etienne of the Glad Heart
as Olaf - a Trapper
1914
The Wilderness Mail
as Otto, the Mail Driver
1914
In Defiance of the Law
as Scottie Deane
1914
Passing of the Beast
as Gilbert - the Mountie
1914
Love's Western Flight
1914
A Wife on a Wager
1914
When the Night Call Came
1914
Lost by a Hair
as Rejected Suitor
1913
The Battle of Gettysburg
as Jack Lamar
1913
When Lincoln Paid
1912
The Ball Player and the Bandit
as Harry's Rival
1912
When Lee Surrenders